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Sebastiaan Faber
@sebasfaber
Teaches at Oberlin; writes in @thenation, @lamarea_com, @ctxt_es, @fronterad, @publicbooks; coedits @lincolnbrigade's The Volunteer. Opinions my own.
Jan 25, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
The Mystery Quote: a thread for archive, #SpanishCivilWar & #factchecking nerds. @gilestremlett, in his International Brigades, quotes Bowers, US Ambassador to Spain, on the Non-Intervention Committee: “the most cynical and lamentably dishonest group that history has known”. 1/14 Giles T refers to Beevor, "The Battle for Spain," where the quote is longer: "Each movement of the Non-Intervention Committee has been made to serve the cause of the rebellion…This Committee was the most cynical and lamentably dishonest group that history has known." 2/14